 Ford stopped making airplanes by July 1932, and rented the airport land and the hangar to his former airport manager Elmer L. Browne, and later the Hammond aviator Guy W. Amick.The hangar and the airport were acquired by the Village of Lansing in 1976 in order to qualify for federal funding.The hangar was in its original use until 2011, when it was vacated for preservation purposes.